The Atlantic on managing relationships with apps
Managing Your Friendships, With Software
A slew of new start-ups want to help people manage their relationships the way they would sales leads. Should we be worried about our friends turning us into data points?
Kaitlyn Tiffany
The Atlantic has published a piece on managing relationships with apps. It mentions Hippo and other solutions like spreadsheets. They have interviewed users that keep track of friends:
Joan Westenberg, an Australian writer and publicist, uses HubSpot and keeps detailed notes about everyone she knows. (“If I’m seeing one of my friends, I shouldn’t wear my spider earrings as they make her arachnophobia uncomfortable.”) Having a database to look at makes her feel less alone, she told me. And it helps her to organize her time so that she can be literally alone less.
